According to a report from the National Civil Police (PNC), the man who died and the two who were injured during the attack were identified. armed attack registered this Wednesday, June 24, in the Mario Alioto neighborhood, zone 4 of Villa Nueva.
The document identifies the victim as Gustavo Adolfo Jiménez Guarcaswhom the PNC indicates as alleged “head of square” of a structure dedicated to illegal lending known as drop by drop and to the distribution of drug dealing. According to the report, he died from gunshot wounds while driving a black pick-up truck with P-528KBJ plates.
The injured were identified as Santos Nazario Juarez54 years old, who was taken to the Social Security accident hospital, and Juan Alberto Yumán Valenzuela35, admitted to the Villa Nueva Hospital. Both appear in the police report with the lender profile.
The PNC’s preliminary hypothesis establishes that the victims were traveling in the pick-up truck when “They were intercepted by two motorcycles, whose crew members began shooting at them with heavy-caliber firearms”.
The document adds that, after the attack, “The pursuit of uniformed personnel from the sector begins, managing to capture those responsible in a vehicle where they fled”. As a result of the operation, five alleged members of the Mara Salvatrucha were captured.
During the processing of the scene, investigators from the Public Ministry (MP) and the Specialized Criminal Investigation Division (Deic) collected 97 cluesamong them 79 firearm casingssix projectiles, two pistol-type firearms, magazines, cartridges and blood samples.
Furthermore, they were packed Q335 in casha cell phone, a cap, a hopper holder, a jacket and other objects that will be subjected to expert reports.
The report also states that “At the scene of the incident, a pistol-type firearm is seen lying on the asphalt strip”which was processed along with the victims’ vehicle.
The PNC indicated that ballistic analyzes will allow establishing whether the weapons, projectiles and casings recovered were used only in this attack or if they are related to other acts of violence.
One of the injured had been arrested in 2025
The PNC database indicates that Juan Alberto Yumán Valenzuela had already been captured May 31, 2025in Amatitlán.
According to the police report of that date, he was arrested along with seven other people during an operation carried out after a complaint from a man who claimed to have been intercepted by armed individuals, who set his motorcycle on fire after dousing it with fuel.
Subsequently, PNC agents located the suspects on the Anís Bridge, where the vehicles in which they were traveling were captured and confiscated.